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Most people don’t realize their toilet leaks water to the drain because it does not leak onto the bathroom floor where it can be noticed. However it does waste water. Mostly likely by the time you realize your toilet leaks, it has already leaked for months at a low frequency when you are not at home or not paying attention. How do you know which toilet leaks, and how can you detect such leaks early on and identify which part of the toilet is responsible for the leak? Today, I am sharing with you the simplest and easiest tests to identify the leak early on. I will show you how to fix the leaks as well.

In addition to flushing one tank of water, my experiment showed another 3 liters of water flowed to the overflow tube. I was very surprised to discover this. I will provide a zero cost fix to this problem. I will provide 5 different ways to save on water used in toilet flushing. These techniques are based on the amount of water the toilet tank releases, assuming the toilet bowl is efficient. Watch this video to see the efficient toilet siphon effect: https://youtu.be/_EP7LZdnMXo Note that if your toilet bowl is not efficient, reducing the water flushed may not clear the solid waste well, you may have to flush twice. So one of the best techniques is to have a dual flush system which uses more water for the solid waste than the liquid waste. See the explanation and installation of the dual flush system: https://youtu.be/1RDGznJm-U8

You won’t need to waste water repeating my experiments, instead watch this video, share to as many people as you can, favorite it, like it, so that we save water.

Have you ever wonder how a dual flush toilet works? This is a best video to explain not only how to install but also how it works. The official installation instruction looked easy until my toilet overflow tube was slightly different. I had to chip away some unexpected fins. That is why you need to know more details of the internal working of this complicated unit.

You won’t need to waste water repeating my experiments, instead watch this video, share to as many people as you can, favorite it, like it, so that we save water.

This big mystery puzzled me for weeks. I bought an adjustable flapper, but can’t figure out why it should work. It looks symmetrical when adjusted from min to max. I asked the following people about it: Home Depot sale people, plumbers and a lot of my DIY type friends, none of them could answer with a reasonable theory (https://youtu.be/DmgkmE8Zn8g). I finally figured it out through many experiments. I am sharing this with you since I have wasted a lot tanks of water in my experiments.

Once we have figured out how the adjustable flapper works, we can also convert our non-adjustable flapper into an adjustable one, enabling you to experiment with the idea first without multiple trips to Home Depot. And of course it saves your money!!